Genocide_Germany+Darfur

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Genocide in Germany

 * Led by a man named Adolf Hitler who was a dictator.
 * Hitler came to power in 1933
 * Hitler's followers were known as the Nazi Party.
 * The Nazi Party was against Jews, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, homosexuals,and other minorities that weren't the "superior Aryan race".
 * The Jewish were the most effected by the genocide.
 * The genocide went without being interfeared for 6 years until World War II started.
 * The Jews were first put into small sections of towns called ghettos where they were overly packed into homes.
 * They were forced to wear the yellow star of David that showed they were in fact a Jew.
 * They then were taken from their homes in the ghettos and packed tightly into trains to go to concentration camps.
 * On the way to the camps, many Jews died or became ill from lack of food, air, and spread of disease.
 * There were two types of concentration camps.
 * One type of camp was for woman, children, and week or elderly men who couldn't work. They were systematically killed. Many were shot or burned. After 1940, many were put in gas chambers where they suffocated to death
 * In another type of concentration camp, men and young boys were forced to undergo severe labor and live under horrible living conditions
 * Often times people were forced to dig large holes and then they were shot in front of them and the hole became their grave

Genocide in Darfur

 * Takes place in Sudan
 * Started about 3 years ago when Darfur rebles wanted more freedom
 * They revolted against Sudans authoritarian Islamic Government
 * The government wanted to end the revolt by wiping out all the native Africans in Darfur
 * The rebel movement is made up of three ethnic groups: the Fur, Zaghawa, and the Masalit all of whom were non-Arab
 * The Arabs wanted to rid the land of the non-Arabs and clear the land for themselves
 * The Janjaweed Militia attacked the non-Arab rebels by burning their villages, killing off the men and boys, and raping and killing women and girls
 * About 2 million people were displaced in camps
 * Many people tried to flee from Darfur and escape into the bordering Chad where they lived in refugee camps
 * The situation worsened after the Darfur Peace Agreement that was signed on May 5, 2006
 * This agreement didnt bring peace because the fighting increased as a result of the rebles continued to fight off the government
 * The Janjaweed still continued to attack the people
 * The Sudanese govenment explains what is happening as a tribal conflict and doesnt take responsibility for systematic attacks on civilians.
 * The refugees in Darfur are slowly starving and more are dying every day
 * The Us isnt doing much to help the conflict in Darfur